General Announcements

Vilelmini Sosoni, Lecturer, became one of the three members of an Ionian University group (the other two being K. Kermanidou, Lecturer, and D. Tsoumakos, Assistant Professor, both from the Department of Informatics of the Ionian University) to succeed in securing funding within the framework of the programme Horizon2020 for a submitted proposal. Out of a total budget of 3 million Euros available for this programme, 400,000 euros will be allotted to the Ionian University and the two Departments. The submitted proposal pertains to machine translation in the context of the Massive Open Online Courses in more than 10 European and BRIC languages.

The External Evaluation Report by the Hellenic Quality Assurance and Accreditation Agency for the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting of the Ionian University has been published.

The new book of William Mallinson entitled The Same Things Return with Different Colours is already published.

Paschalis Nikolaou, Lecturer, published three poems in the Turkish poetry journal Şiirden (July-August 2013, issue 18, p.46, www.siirden.net/dergi/2013/18).

The anthology entitled Narratives of Risk: Interdisciplinary Studies ‒ Narrative des Risikos. Interdisziplinäre Beiträge was co-edited by Anastasia Parianou, Associate Professor at the Ionian University, Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting (DFLTI), and academics from the Østfold University College (Norway). It was published by Waxmann (Münster/Germany) in December (...)

... by the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting of the Ionian University to celebrate its twentieth anniversary.